The first wave of topics for 1.8.3

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
index a88e851f2113f41d35928eeb78bef7a55701c484..a71d66010636289a19227352f3f57553df080db3 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ Foreign Interface
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
 
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
 

+ * Updates for building under msvc.

 
 
 Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
 
 
 Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.


@@ -51,3 +52,35 @@ Fixes since v1.8.2
 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.2 in the maintenance
 track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
 details).
 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.2 in the maintenance
 track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
 details).

+
+ * The "--color=<when>" argument to the commands in the diff family
+   was described poorly.
+   (merge 3d0e75f jc/color-diff-doc later to maint).
+
+ * The arguments given to pre-rebase hook were not documented.
+   (merge 0414acc wk/doc-pre-rebase later to maint).
+
+ * The v4 index format was not documented.
+   (merge 647d879 nd/doc-index-format later to maint).
+
+ * The "--match=<pattern>" argument "git describe" takes uses glob
+   pattern but it wasn't obvious from the documentation.
+   (merge 5229149 gp/describe-match-uses-glob-pattern later to maint).
+
+ * Some sources failed to compile on systems that lack NI_MAXHOST in
+   their system header (e.g. z/OS).
+   (merge 3b130ade dm/ni-maxhost-may-be-missing later to maint).
+
+ * Add an example use of "--env-filter" in "filter-branch"
+   documentation.
+   (merge 21b6e4f tk/doc-filter-branch later to maint).
+
+ * "git bundle verify" did not say "records a complete history" for a
+   bundle that does not have any prerequisites.
+   (merge a02ffe0 lf/bundle-verify-list-prereqs later to maint).
+
+ * In the v1.8.0 era, we changed symbols that do not have to be global
+   to file scope static, but a few functions in graph.c were used by
+   CGit from sideways bypassing the entry points of the API the
+   in-tree users use.
+   (merge ac751a0 jk/graph-c-expose-symbols-for-cgit later to maint).